copacetic
When something's copacetic, it's fine. If you tell a classroom full of kids that they'll be spending the day at the beach instead of going to math class, they'll probably be copacetic with the idea.
When things are going well, they're copacetic. The adjective copacetic can describe the general mood of a group or gathering, a relationship between two people, or even the harmonies in a piece of music, with a meaning ranging from "just fine" to "excellent." Copacetic is considered an informal word, but it's been commonly used since around 1920. Its origins are unknown, but it's thought that it started in the 19th century in casual southern African American speech.
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completely satisfactory“his smile said that everything was copacetic”“"You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic"- John O'Hara”synonyms: copasetic, copesetic, copesetticsatisfactorygiving satisfaction
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Ben Zimmer is the executive producer of Vocabulary.com and the Visual Thesaurus. He is language columnist for The Boston Globe and the former "On Language" columnist for The New York Times Magazine. He has worked as editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Press and as a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. He is also the chair of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society. We asked Ben, as an expert on the history of American English, to give us some of his favorite words that originated in the United States. "I'm fascinated by how the English language developed a unique American flavor (not flavour!) beginning in colonial times. I've been collecting examples of great contributions from American English. Here is a cornucopia of copacetic coinages from fertile American minds."